The Iberians

The Iberian Peninsula is a geographical concept formed by Spain and Portugal, two geographically united countries but separately by an invisible border.

-  CANDY LOPESINO

'THE IBERIANS,' the essay focused on my travels in these territories throughout the first two decades of the 21st century. Visually narrating the things that happen while wandering around Iberia, how to write in a sketchbook. Knowing a specific territory gives depth and meaning to my project; that is why my work is a continuous journey through Spain and Portugal. These are places where I explore the concepts of territory, borders, light, memory, and identity through observing the other.

As Fernando Pessoa wrote: "... Portugal and Spain, it would be said that the two countries have finally realized that a border if it separates, also unites and that if two neighboring nations are two because they are two, they can morally be almost one because they are neighbors."

In The Iberians, I rediscover the familiar places, their people, their culture, their realities circumscribed to geography; in short, I explore the human condition of my origin.

Candy Lopesino is a Spanish photographer and cinematographer born in Madrid.

"I started painting in oil. One day I discovered an old camera at home that my father bought. I started photographing my sisters. From there, I was charmed by photography and started my journey in the field.